CURRICULUM VITAE

FARAI KIMPTON KAMANGIRIRA

BIRTH: 03 DECEMBER 1950

MARITAL STATUS: MARRIED

QUALIFICATION: B Sc Honours Chemistry (1978) University of Lagos, Nigeria

Employment History

1)Consulting Metallurgist

January 2011 to Date

Auditing of Rio Zim metallurgical balances since 2014 both half yearly and yearly, and test work for small scale miners mostly on gold recovery from mill tailings.

2)Lily 13 plant

April 2014 to May 2014

Projects Manager

Responsible for:

a) Optimisation of current milling plant to introduce new technology and maximize production and minimize losses through theft and poor operating practices.

b) Test work to determine, design and commission a 3 tonne per hour

CIP plant at Lily mine.

3) Empress Nickel Refinery

Technical Superintendent

April 2006 to December 2010

Responsibilities

a) Technical input for plant optimization

b) Quality controls of Products, nickel cathode, copper cathode, cobalt Cake and platinum group metals concentrate.

c) Training of all metallurgists

d) Implementation of ISO 9001,ISO 14000, ISO 18001 and ISO 17025 systems

e) Control of ENR and Analytical laboratories

f) Project management. Test work to recover nickel and copper from slag by grinding and gravity separation.

Also test work to optimize the Super Pit project that will be implemented in 2012.

4)Golden Valley

Reduction Officer

April 2002 to April 2003

Milling, amalgamation and CIP treatment of run of mine gold ore.

Metal balance

Design and installation of a CIP plant that produced 20kg gold per month.

5) Reliance North project

Projects Director

October 1997 to March 2006

Gold dump retreatment.

This involved the bench scale test work for the treatment of 70000 t tailings.

6) Empress Nickel Refinery

Smelter Superintendent

July 1995 to September 1997

Smelting of Nickel and copper residues using Ausmelt Technology

This Australian method was developed to smelt in one stage the Refinery nickel and copper residues.

A visit to Australia in 1997 involved presentation of a paper on Ausmelt technology.

Visits were also conducted on aluminium smelting and refining plants and Zinc plants

7) Empress Nickel Refinery

Senior Metallurgist

April 1992 to June 1995

Projects Testwork from bench scale to process design, construction and implementation.

Test work was successfully completed to economically leach gold from Renco copper concentrates. A pilot plant was installed and ran for 8 months to produce 54kg gold.

Then designed, constructed and commissioned the plant to produce 15kg gold per month.

Test work to leach smelter matte and expand the Refinery capacity by 50%.

8) Dorowa Minerals

Production manager

April 1986 to March 1992

Open cast mining and plant control.

In charge of mining operations with the Open Pit Superintendent and plant Superintendent reporting to me.

Did test work to re grind flotation tails, then implemented the process to increase Production from 12000t per month phosphate concentrate to 16000t per month.

9) Bindura Nickel Corporation

Trojan Concentrator Superintendent

December 1984 to March 1986

Milling, flotation and waste disposal.

Successfully did test work to re grind final tails and improve recoveries by 5%.

b) Assistant Refinery Superintendent

July 1983 to November 1984

Control of the Tank house to maintain quality of Nickel and copper cathodes produced.

Also responsible for all rail and road shipments by road or rail to customers

c) Madziwa Mine Concentrator Superintendent

December 1982 to June 1983

Milling and flotation of mine ores.

Shipment of concentrates to Bindura Smelter and Refinery.

d) Senior Metallurgist

July 1983 to November 1983

Metallurgical accounting and training of plant metallurgist and plant foremen

Trouble shooting to minimize impurities like copper, Iron and cobalt in Nickel cathodes.

Leach test work which improved quality of cobalt cake from 40% to 49% by lowering pH conditions on treating primary cake.

e) Smelter Metallurgist

Metallurgical accounting and plant control

Test work to reduce cobalt loses in slag from 1% to 0.66%.

f) Plant metallurgist

April 1979 to June 1983

Monthly metallurgical accounting and trouble shooting.

2 years learnership qualify as graduate metallurgist.

Blend control of Concentrates from Madziwa, Shangani, Trojan and Epoch to produce desired furnace feed. Also the amounts of silica required to form a proper fayalite slag as per phase diagrams.

References;

C. Tobayiwa Administration Manager Super Pit

Cell 077*******

C. Kariwo Location manager Empress Nickel Refinery

Cell 077*******

CONTACT

Email address; ad316v@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 077*******

Contact this candidate